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  2. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] (REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.) THE ADDRESS IN REPLY TO THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

    Mr. Parnell formally moved an amendment on the Address in reply to the Queen's Speech from the Throne, and his remarks on the occasion were studiously moderate. They ...

    Article : 158 words
  3. STRANDING OF THE STEAMER CHIMBORAZO.

    The Orient steamer Chimborazo, inward bound from London, for Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, grounded on Marion Reef at 3 a.m. this morning, south by east of Troubridge lighthouse. She is in seventeen feet of ...

    Article : 729 words
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    The passage in the Queen's Speech which has reference to the insurrection of the Boers in the Transvaal is, as we receive it by cable, remarkable, even as an official utterance. The Boen ...

    Article : 386 words
  5. NEW ZEALAND.

    The Hon. Mr. Dick, Colonial Secretary, has been appointed to represent New Zealand at the Sydney Intercolonial Conference, and leaves for Sydney per R. M. S. City of New York, which is due at Auckland. ...

    Article : 44 words
  6. THE MINISTER FOR MINES AND THE PASTORAL LESSEES.

    At the recent election, candidates of all shades of opinion and degrees of knowledge concurred in stating that the rents of squattages were much too low, and ought to be largely increased. The Ministers of the ...

    Article : 762 words
  7. CORRUPT PRACTICES AT ELECTIONS BILL.

    A bill has been introduced to the House of Commons, having for its object the repression of corrupt practices at elections. The new law will be very strict, according to ...

    Article : 43 words
  8. NEWS OF THE DAY.

    SCARCELY has the Orient Company's steamship Sorata been got off the rocks, and placed in dock for repairs,than another of the company's fine fleet of steamers,the Chimhorazo, has got stranded. This is ...

    Article : 4,007 words
  9. NEW IRISH LAND BILL.

    The new Irish Land Bill is not giving entire satisfaction to the Liberal party, several members of which, have expressed their decided disapproval of the measure. ...

    Article : 33 words
  10. THE GREEK FRONTIER QUESTION.

    In consequence, of the pressure brought to bear by the Great Powers on the Turkish and Greek Governments, they have determined to reconsider their decision not to refer the ...

    Article : 47 words
  11. THE BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

    The Board of Trade returns show that the value of imports for December was£33,187,500, showing a decrease of £2,125,000, as compared with the last month of 1879. The ...

    Article : 54 words
  12. SAILING OF THE ACONCAGUA.

    The Orient Co.'s steamer Aconcagua sailed from Plymouth to-day, with mails and passengers for Australia. ...

    Article : 23 words
  13. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS.) WILCANNIA.

    Mr. F. G. Hawson, a well-known resident in the Wilcannia district, nearly lost his life whilst travelling from Wilcannia to Coulla. He was twenty hours without food, water, or shelter, and his horse perished. ...

    Article : 122 words
  14. QUEENSLAND.

    The schooner Chance, from South Seas, reports that the boats of the Jabberwook were fired on by natives of Tanna; also the capture of the schooner Borealis, of Auckland, at Malayta, and the massaere of the crew, ...

    Article : 282 words
  15. CAPE NEWS BY THE CHIMBORAZO.

    By the steamship Chimborazo the following news has been received from the Cape up to December 20:— The native outbreak still continues, and the colony has now in the field nearly 1800 men, of which number ...

    Article : 191 words
  16. CULTIVATION OF THE OLIVE.

    Sir,—Now that attention has been drawn to the Harh[?] of Port Stephens, situated about 24 miles north of Newcastle, by the establishment of a fishing depot for the sapply of Sydney and Melbourne with frozen fish, the ...

    Article : 663 words
  17. FATE OF LEICHHARDT.

    Sir,—The following telegram reached me this evening:— "Blackall, Queensland, January 8,1881. "Have found Classsn's grave, and fate of Leichhardt. (Signed) ...

    Article : 111 words
  18. OVERLAND PASSENGER TRAFFIC.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 289 words
  19. VICTORIA.

    A man named William Tucker shot himself, owing to unrequited love. Affairs at the hospital are again causing public attention to be directed to the bad management of that ...

    Article : 265 words
  20. THE QUEEN'S ALBUM.

    Sir,-A description appears in your columns of a very magniflcent album of photography prepared for presentation to the Queen. The title page sets forth that it is presented, "On behalf of the people of New South Wales." I ...

    Article : 118 words
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    THE DISCOVERY OF THE KANGAROO.—In 1770 Captain Cook visited Botany Bay in the Endeavour, which had been dispatehed in 1768 on a scientific mission. In the course of the voyage, and when anchored in ...

    Article : 284 words
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    Advertising : 143 words
  23. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

    Several cases of lost in the bush have occurred lataly. The number of victims this year will probably far exceed the average, as so many well-known camps are, being broken up a [?]nd what were hitherto permanent ...

    Article : 184 words
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